Trump Signs EO To End Obama-Biden War On Water Pressure

By William Teach April 10, 2025 – 7:15 am

This is obviously making lefties, like those at the Washington Post, rather upset, despite all those elites ignoring the Obama-Biden order

Trump signs order to ‘make America’s showers great again’

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday lifting restrictions on how much water can be used by shower heads, saying his administration would “make America’s showers great again.”

The order underscored how Trump remains fixated on one of his favorite targets — more efficient shower heads that he has blamed for ruining his “perfect” hair — even in the midst of global upheaval caused by his turbulent tariff policies.

“I like to take a nice shower to take care of my beautiful hair,” Trump said before signing the order at the White House. “I have to stand in the shower for 15 minutes until it gets wet. … It’s ridiculous.”

In a fact sheet sent to reporters, the White House said the order “frees Americans from excessive regulations that turned a basic household item into a bureaucratic nightmare,” adding that Trump would “end the Obama-Biden war on water pressure and make America’s showers great again.”

You can feel the anger in the WP writing, despite Trump pretty much joking around. But, Dems do not understand jokes unless they involve killing people who do not agree with them.

The order, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, directs the Energy Department to rescind a regulation issued under President Barack Obama and later reinstated under President Joe Biden. The rule limited the flow from each shower head on the market to 2.5 gallons of water per minute.

There’s actually a big difference between the shower head in my shower, which has been replaced a few times because I use it a lot, and the one in the spare bedroom, which was there when I bought the home in 2009. That one is older and has a higher flow.

Yet manufacturers of shower heads are not clamoring for another rollback. Few manufacturers offer fixtures that fall under the definition from Trump’s first term, according to the Appliance Standards Awareness Project, an energy conservation advocacy group.

Has the WP consider that they could retool a bit? Or that other companies could start offering them? Oh, right, in Socialist World that never happens. And don’t forget Obama and Biden did this in the name of ‘climate change’ and extreme-environmentalism.

Elsewhere

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Bummer: Thousands Of Illegals Voluntarily Deport

By William Teach April 10, 2025 – 7:00 am

It’ll be more fun when the number is hundreds of thousands. And millions

Thousands leave country voluntarily amid Trump self-deport push, DHS says

Thousands of illegal immigrants facing potential involuntary removal from the U.S. have instead opted to self-deport through an app provided by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

The number of immigrants who have opted to self-deport over the last month using the CBP Home app is over 5,000, according to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data shared with Fox News Digital.

The self-deportations come as the Trump administration has ramped up a messaging campaign aimed at encouraging illegal immigrants to leave the country voluntarily, most recently releasing a flyer addressed to “illegal aliens” that threatens new fines for those who choose to remain in the U.S. despite a deportation order.

“Self-deportation is safe,” the flyer reads. “Leave on your own terms by picking your departure flight.”

The flyer warns that the administration plans to start fining illegal migrants who have received a final order of removal $998 per day if they continue to stay in the country, while fines of $1,000-$5,000 could be given to those who failed to self-deport after claiming they would.

This is making Democrats like Excitable Jasmine Crockett very upset, because, who’s going to clean their homes and pick the cotton?

America First Legal Senior Counsel James Rogers argued that the self-deportation push is working because of the “credible threat of enforcement.”

“Our nation’s immigration laws impose severe penalties on aliens who are illegally in the country. The only reason there is a large population of illegal immigrants residing in the United States is because prior administrations have failed to enforce these laws passed by Congress,” Rogers said. “Everyone knows this, including the aliens who have been illegally living here. The current trend of illegal aliens self-deporting proves that even just the credible threat of enforcement can be enough to get many illegal immigrants to comply with our laws and leave the country.”

And that’s what it comes down to: a credible threat, versus under Obama and Biden when the illegals were invited in with open arms to live off the taxpayer largess. And, by self deporting using the app, the illegals have a future opportunity to come back under legal means.

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Surprise: Climahypocrite AOC Takes Long Fossil Fueled Flight In First Class

By William Teach April 9, 2025 – 3:00 pm

Remind me, wasn’t she the primary House sponsor of the Green New Deal?

From the link

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was photographed flying first-class to a Bernie Sanders event last month — with critics saying it shows how she battles inequality one “mimosa at a time.”

An incredulous passenger snapped AOC (D-NY) getting comfy in the roomy first-class cabin of JetBlue Flight 511 on March 19 that departed from JFK Airport in Queens for Las Vegas, where she spoke at a Sanders rally titled “Fighting Oligarchy.”

The next day, the equality-spouting darling of the far left rallied along with her socialist comrade, Sen. Sanders (I-Vt.), in North Vegas and at Arizona State University in Tempe.

“Nothing says, ‘Power to the people’ like ignoring voters looking to say hello and reclining in first class while tweeting about income inequality,” the flier who took the photo told The Post — claiming that AOC did not respond to friendly comments once she sat down.

“AOC is fighting the system one first-class mimosa at a time,” said the passenger, Tracey, who is from Brooklyn and was sitting in the economy cabin.

Nothing says the Earth only has twelve years left to stop ‘climate change’ like unnecessary fossil fueled flights.

First-class seats on planes also have been widely derided by climate-change activists because they typically produce many times the carbon emissions of economy seats since they take up more room, thus reducing the number of people able to fly at one time.

Some New York pols said the regal travel by AOC — a rabid climate-change protester — is just the latest example of hypocrisy from the left.

“Socialists are hypocrites. I’m surprised she didn’t take a private jet like most of her comrades,” quipped Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), who represents Staten Island and Brooklyn.

I’m glad so many others are realizing that the biggest Warmists are the biggest climahypocrites.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 9, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is wasting valuable water on a low MPG fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on Trump using a Clinton era law to charge illegals $1,000 a day.

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Bummer: Six Foreign Students Have Visas Terminated At UNC Chapel Hill

By William Teach April 9, 2025 – 10:30 am

Nobody actually knows why, but, the local Raleigh Credentialed Media is on the case

6 UNC international students have visas terminated by federal government, school says

Six students at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill have had their visas revoked by the federal government, the school said Tuesday.

“UNC-Chapel Hill’s International Student and Scholars Services is aware that, at this time, the Student Exchange and Visitor Program records six of our international have been terminated by the U.S. government,” the school’s media relations department said.

No reason was given for the termination. It is unclear whether the six affected are undergraduate or graduate students, which programs are enrolled in, and which countries they came from. It is also unclear whether the students are still in the U.S. or whether they have left the country. (snip)

The revocation of the UNC students’ visas comes less than a week after two N.C. State University international students also had their visas terminated. According to NC State, those two students — who the Muslim Student Association at N.C. State said were engineering majors — left the U.S. as a result of their visas being revoked.

Neither the WRAL nor ABC11 articles really added anything different, though their focus was more on students being upset and stuff, like from ABC11

UNC is home to thousands of international students. UNC Junior Caroline Strada says it was important to speak up for fellow students as they worry if they could be next.

“They’re scared and rightfully so because you come here to be educated you come here to get a better education and if you say something that someone doesn’t agree with or an administration doesn’t agree with you’re axed? It just doesn’t seem right,” she says.

So, does she have knowledge, like maybe these students were involved in calling for the eradication of Israel and Jews during the protests? And WRAL

“My parents came here and they had to work so hard to build a life here,” said UNC student Aditi Nayak. I think that it sucks because these people are also working to build a life here.”

Um, no, they do not get to build a life here. They were on student visas. They go to school and when school is done they go back to their home countries. Or somewhere else. Just not here in the U.S. What do they teach kiddies at schools these days? Their knowledge is abominable.

The Raleigh News and Observer adds some info

International students are required to obtain visas to enroll and study at colleges around the United States. In addition to visas, international students are assigned records in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, or SEVIS, a federal database maintained by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

If a student’s visa is revoked, it does not automatically mean they must leave the country. But if a student’s SEVIS record is terminated — as the UNC students’ records were, according to the university — they are deemed “out of status” and could be subject to deportation or other removal proceedings, an immigration attorney previously told The N&O.

And their SEVIS records have been terminated. Hence, they will be repatriated out of the U.S. And, visas are being terminated all over. Stanford, Harvard, multiple Maryland colleges, around three dozen booted from California universities, Massachusetts, and more. We may not know why, or even who, in most cases, but, we can all make an educated guess that they were involved in the pro-Hamas/anti-Jew protests. From that final link

Another from China added, “I hope everybody here, especially for international students, can study in peace without worrying.”

Would that also include the Jewish students, who were harassed and abused? There is a reason that Harvard barred 13 pro-Hamas students from graduating. What about students being able to study in peace without pro-Hamas demonstrators taking over buildings and blocking the walkways and such.

By the way, I wonder how many students had their visas ended under Biden, without the news caring.

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Woman Kisses Whale On Excursion And It’s Obviously About ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach April 9, 2025 – 7:15 am

The hallmarks of a cult: there’s a cool moment between a human and a whale and then having to drag your cult beliefs into it

Kissing a whale in Mexico and witnessing firsthand the effects of climate change

In the bays and lagoons of southern Mexico, where gray whales have gathered for thousands of years to give birth and nurture their young, tourists flock for exciting, close-up encounters with the ocean giants.

But there are troublesome signs that the whale population is suffering from lack of food, due to climate change, and a low birth rate.

“They look thinner, you can see their vertebrae and ribs more,” said Pepe Garcia Rodriguez, our friendly, small boat captain who took us out for a day-long whale-watching tour at the end of February in Magdalena Bay, in Mexico.

The gray whales make a remarkable 10,000-to-12,000-mile round trip migration from Alaska to their Mexican nurseries each year, fattening themselves up in the Arctic before starting their journey south.

But “they don’t have enough food in Alaska,” Pepe said. “When that happens, there’s going to be less babies on the next year, more and more whales dead.”

There couldn’t possibly be other reasons, like, over-fishing and actual pollution, right? Whales have survived just fine during previous Holocene warm periods, which were as warm if not warmer. Dragging the climate cult into the mix actually creates an impediment to deal with the real issues.

“I kissed a whale and I liked it,” was my wife’s refrain after she leaned over the side of the small boat to plant a big smooch on one of the cooperative gray whale moms in 2019, the last time we were in San Ignacio.

So, the writers wife had a cool interaction, and he had to fire off what is a long article? Cult.

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SCOTUS Rules In Trump’s Favor On Fired Probationary Workers

By William Teach April 9, 2025 – 7:00 am

At least temporarily

Supreme Court halts order to rehire probationary workers fired by Trump

The Supreme Court on Tuesday paused an order by a lower-court judge requiring the Trump administration to rehire about 16,000 fired probationary employees, at least a temporary victory for the president’s efforts to radically downsize the government and dismantle some agencies.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled last month that the government’s human resource agency, the Office of Personnel Management, had no legal authority to direct mass firings at the departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Interior, Treasury and Veterans Affairs. Most of the workers had been on the job a year or two, but some were more veteran employees.

The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that Alsop’s order, which was based on the allegations of nine nonprofit groups, was improper because the groups did not have standing to sue, meaning they did not have a direct stake in the firings so they could not bring legal action. The high court’s order did not address allegations brought by workers’ unions that are also part of the lawsuit. The fired probationary workers were not parties to the legal action.

The impact of the ruling will be somewhat limited because a federal judge in Maryland issued a similar injunction last month against the firing of many of the same workers in 19 states and the District of Columbia. The Maryland ruling remains in effect and was not part of the high court’s decision.

If the POTUS cannot terminate employees for cause then what is the point of having a POTUS, when some random judge can decide they Do Not Agree with the duly elected POTUS?

Two liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, said they would have denied the government’s application to pause the rehirings while litigation continues.

Surprised it wasn’t one of those two and Amy Coney Barrett.

“The District Court’s injunction was based solely on the allegations of the nine non-profit-organization plaintiffs in this case. But under established law, those allegations are presently insufficient to support the organizations’ standing,” the majority wrote.

What do those non-profits have to do with it? Oh, right, they would have a tougher time getting the graft money?

The plaintiffs in the 9th Circuit said the Supreme Court ruling was “only a momentary pause” in their efforts to fight the firings.

“There is no doubt that thousands of public service employees were unlawfully fired in an effort to cripple federal agencies and their crucial programs that serve millions of Americans every day,” they said in a statement. “Today’s order by the U.S. Supreme Court is deeply disappointing but is only a momentary pause in our efforts to enforce the trial court’s orders and hold the federal government accountable.”

Yup, they want their grat money.

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Cult: Disney’s Snow Woke Had A Huge Carbon Footprint

By William Teach April 8, 2025 – 3:00 pm

This is the type of thing only a member of a doomsday cult would care about, would even think about finding out, and then writing about it. But, it makes good blog material for those of us who laugh at the cult, like Green Jihad, where I first saw this

Disney’s Snow White had higher carbon emissions than the latest Fast & Furious film

At a screening of the new Snow White movie in London last month, influencers walked through an artificial fairytale forest, complete with a full-size thatched cottage filled with models of furry animals. In the US, Disney paraded an actual bunny in a brown knitted jumper down the red carpet at the film’s Hollywood premiere.

But the film’s theme of being at one with nature seems not to have extended to the real-life environment, with company documents showing the making of Snow White generated more greenhouse gas emissions in the UK than the latest Fast & Furious film, despite the latter’s reliance on an array of gas-guzzling cars.

Analysis of more than 250 sets of filings from the Walt Disney Company reveals that the live action remakes of Snow White and another animated classic, The Little Mermaid, created more pollution than any of its other movies made in the UK since 2019, when the environmental reporting requirement was introduced.

By “pollution” they mean CO2, otherwise known as plant food.

It obliges companies to disclose the emissions generated in the UK, so the global total may be higher. The Little Mermaid, for example, was also filmed in Sardinia, while the Fast and Furious film-makers travelled to Italy and the US.

The combined emissions for Snow White and The Little Mermaid are higher than the annual amount produced by Birmingham and Luton airports. Each movie generated higher emissions than the annual total for Blackpool Pleasure Beach and London’s O2 Arena, where the Snow White influencer event took place.

But, outside of cult world, does anyone really care? Were any of the tiny amount of Snow Woke fans thinking “hey, I wonder what the carbon footprint of the movie is”? The whole thing is nutbar.

Despite being made by an American studio, both Snow White and The Little Mermaid were filmed at Pinewood Studios, just outside London. Studios filming in the UK get up to 25.5% of their spending reimbursed under government plans to incentivise the industry. As part of this process, accounts must be filed for the ­production company behind each movie, showing the cost of making the movie and the emissions generated in the UK.

That’s nuts, both for the need to calculate the carbon footprint and being reimbursed. It’s one thing to have a tax break to film, something else to give taxpayer money to film, especially if the movie will make money. And, Snow Woke would probably have lost money even without Rachel Zelger opening her big mouth, and that lefties hate Gal Godot because she is Jewish and Israeli.

Consider that Minecraft, which was panned by reviewers as bad as Snow Woke, has made $157 million in the US and Canada and $144 internationally on it’s first weekend. I think it is stupid, but, people went for apparently just good, message free fun. Snow Woke will probably lose about $115 million. And the climate cult is upset with it!

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 8, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled truck that needs to be cleaned from the Bad Weather created mud, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on Pa Gov Shapiro giving $5 million to a Philly mosque.

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Washington Post Goes TDS Over Trump’s “New Economy Behind Wall Of Tariffs”

By William Teach April 8, 2025 – 10:30 am

The front webpage headline adds “What if” to the beginning and a question mark to the end of the below headline as read in the single page. Because what looks to be straight opinion is now how the WP writes news

Trump is serious about building a new economy behind a wall of tariffs

President Donald Trump faces a major obstacle in trying to transform the U.S. economy into a self-reliant colossus: himself.

The Credentialed Media just can’t help themselves. Anyways

Building the factories to realize the president’s promised high-tariff “Golden Age” and finding the workers to operate them will not be easy. But Trump’s use of unilateral presidential authority, rather than congressional legislation, to enact new import taxes, his contradictory policies, and his history of changing course may discourage business executives from even starting.

Since his April 2 high-tariff announcement, Trump and his senior advisers have given conflicting signals about whether he intends to use the tariff threat as leverage to win concessions from U.S. trading partners or levy permanent import taxes of up to 50 percent on some countries (and even higher in the case of China).

That’s kind of the point: wanting other governments to be unsure

“They can both be true. There can be permanent tariffs and there can also be negotiations,” the president said on Monday as he welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House.

And it is a long, long, long screed saying “the US cannot do this! We cannot have tariffs! We cannot have manufacturing in the U.S.!” It’s almost like the Washington Post is rooting against the U.S. But, let’s see. The WP forgot to mention a few things

Seems good

Even if the president agrees to lower or waive the highest tariffs that he has announced for individual countries, the across-the-board 10 percentage point increase in tariff rates that he implemented on April 5 lifted the U.S. average to its highest mark since at least the 1940s. Many analysts believe that new tax will be permanent. (snip)

Some products — such as coffee or bananas — cannot be produced in the continental United States, even if protected by tariffs. So Americans will pay higher prices to import them. Other goods could be produced in the U.S., but will also cost more since American wages are significantly higher than in other countries such as China or Mexico, said Furman.

The easiest answer is that the other countries remove their tariffs.

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